Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Increased presence of supercomputers

With ‘bus’ sizes doubling up, possibilities for the increased presence of supercomputers have only got better, which therefore calls for greater investments in R&D on the part of the companies. Amongst those in the current pack of leaders, Microsoft leads the rat race and its Windows Blackcomb OS (in the developmental stage) certainly holds many promises, even when you measure it by the ‘security’ rod. However, it fails to address the ‘size’ question; what with handheld and sophisticated computers (like palmtops, which call for embedded OSs) gaining enormous popularity these days? Well, we are not left with nothing here too with names like Chorus, coniX, VxWorks, and DR-DOS (which are far better alternatives to the likes of Windows CE, Palm OS & QNX).

Where OS for your darling handheld ‘mobile phone’ is concerned, Linux seems to be clearly heading towards to leader’s spot in the near future with mobile handset companies swearing by it. Mobiles with powerful applications call for devices to be compatible with each other; so that there is greater hardware flexibility and an enhanced ability to handle voice and data simultaneously (unlike what the traditional Palm OS is capable of). As per ARB Research, Linux with web-its browsing experience OS is forecasted to be the fastest growing smart phone OS by 2012 – a truth that is vindicated by the fact that currently, more and more handset producers are favouring it over the others in the category.

The future of operating systems surely seems to be favouring the community of ‘Open source’ (which was once termed as a ‘Cancer’ by Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft, when explaining how it was eroding his company’s market share), primarily because it offers more flexibility to users. In future, operating systems will employ traditional methodologies to code, control & coordinate the software development tree and these developments will certainly be giving the behemoths, mainly Microsoft, a slew of sleepless nights!

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